Not bad, not the greatest...

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2003)

I am a big fan of "end of the world" films and on Romero's work, so I was expecting a lot from this film. It was good but not great. I liked the small cast and the edgy tension that developed and the London scenes were wonderfully shot. Acting was above average. The plot was predictable (remember Dawn of the Dead?) but so what, it is a classic plot. I did not like the digital filming. Some say it added "realism" but I found it distracting. The ending was.... safe. I would have preferred more ambiguity. And I missed the more graphic assaults that one sees in most of these films. Nothing like Tom Savini for this kind of work.
All in all, it was a decent trip to a cool theater on a hot afternoon but not all that I had hoped for.